Deploys for the week of 2011-10-31 UPDATED!!

[Oskar Linden]

UPDATED!!!

Because of the release issues today we had to stop the roll before we completed it. We are finishing the roll Wednesday morning at 0600 PT. There are only about a thousand simhosts left to do. If things proceed as planned we will roll the RC channels the next day, Thursday. I have updated the dates below to match.

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Happy Halloween! I hope your day was scary. Scary in a good way I mean. Did you find any of the Lindens in costume trick-or-treating? We hope to have a very un-scary release schedule this week. MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *cough cough*

Second Life Server (main channel)

Magnum, oh patient Magnum, now is your turn for promotion. There are a lot of bug fixes being promoted including a few server crashes.

• Bug Fixes:
  • SCR-186 Collision detection does not work for some children of linked prim set
  • SVC-7251 remove automatic logout of agents that have been Away too long
  • SVC-7260 Phantom, unremovable prims
  • SVC-7297 'excessive instant message' throttle kicks in when it shouldn't
  • SCR-115 State changes considerably slower under Mono-LSL than LSO-LSL
  • SCR-22 "X-SecondLife-Owner-Name" sometimes set to '(waiting)' instead of ownername
  • SVC-7321 llRemoteLoadScriptPin() fails to add O:VMCT script to O:PERM_ALL atchmnt
  • SVC-7294 The simulator is too strict when llGiveInventory() adds restricted-permission items to fullperm attachments which already contained other restricted-permission items
  • SVC-7339 Performance issues on LeTigre 11.09.23.241511 (and Main Channel)
  • SVC-7289 llCastRay() returns RCERR_CAST_TIME_EXCEEDED on small parcels.
  • Fixed various server crash modes.
• New features:
  • New parameters for llGetObjectDetails(), to allow LSL scripts to view mesh prim accounting:
    • OBJECT_STREAMING_COST returns streaming (download) cost
    • OBJECT_PHYSICS_COST returns physics cost
    • OBJECT_SERVER_COST returns server cost
    • OBJECT_PRIM_EQUIVALENCE returns prim equivalent weight

 

2011-11-01, 5:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/11

 

Second Life RC BlueSteel

BlueSteel has a project that has some refactored voice code. We fixed some bugs and cleaned up some code. There were some parcel issues with voice dots not showing up. There is more info in the release notes.

2011-11-03, 7-11:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/11

 

Second Life RC LeTigre

This is a "Maint-server" project.

• This "maint-server" project is scheduled 2011-11-03

• Bug Fixes
  • SVC-5927 Temp on Rezzed objects get queued
  • SVC-7360 Driving a vehicle over into a full region gives strange error message: You can't enter this region because the sebehavior is full
  • SVC-7379 For group notices groupID is being sent in the AgentID field
  • SVC-7343 llMinEventDelay Bug
  • SVC-7354 Simulator fails to load notecard asset (Intan won't read config card)

2011-11-03, 7-11:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/11

 

Second Life RC Magnum

This project contains an update to the Havok Engine to keep us inline with the latest updates from them. There are no features or bug fixes and there should be no impact to vehicles or physics. Please file a jira if there is.

• No Bug Fixes
• Upgraded physics engine to Havok 2011.2. This brings in the latest work from Havok. We do not expect any noticeable change from this upgrade, but please let us know via jira if you see any new physics related issues.
• Implemented llSetKeyframedMotion (http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/LlSetKeyframedMotion)

2011-11-03, 7-11:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/11

 

We will be monitoring this thread during the next week so please feel free to post issues that you feel have been introduced by the new code. Please file a JIRA for issues you find and post the JIRA link into this thread. It really helps us out. When determining if issues are relevant or not research is key. Tracking down exactly the right situation where an issue is occurring greatly speeds up the development process to get fixes in place.

I appreciate your help. Have a good week!

 

__Oskar

 

p.s. If you are interested in helping test SecondLife in beta please join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world. We also have an email list where we communicate upcoming projects and how you can help. ( https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta ) Once a week we meet on ADITI to discuss new features, new bugs, new fixes, and other fun stuff. You are more than welcome. Information is here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group

[Tonya Souther]

Hey, Oskar...how come the dates for the rolls are last week?

[Oskar Linden]

because I had too much to drink at my dia de los muertos party...

[Oskar Linden]

ok fixed! good catch. :-)

[Abigail Merlin]

looks like we have grumpy regions again, safe kitten has been down for 40 minutes now, hope it is not wide spread this time.

[Oskar Linden]

We've been having some issues with regions not wanting to properly shut down. If they don't shut down they don't get the startup on the updated code. We're working on fixing the backlog now.

 

__Oskar

[Sominel Edelman]

My region Landscapes Unlimited has been down for more than three hours now. After two hours it did show online on the world map, but I still can't TP there. The message I get is: "Teleport failed. Failed to grant capabilities".

[Oskar Linden]

There are many thousands of regions that have failed to shutdown properly. We are working to get each back up and online. Please be patient. We will get each region sorted out soon.

__Oskar

[Ayesha Askham]

@Oskar

Woods of Heaven went down for the restart  30 mins ago,and is not back up yet.  Just adding the name to the list so's you know.  I guess the team is a bit frazzled by now!

[Oskar Linden]

We've got the master list here and are working through each to make sure they come back up properly.

 

__Oskar

[Marigold Devin]

Trick or treat? !

I am a little confused, wonder if you could clarify. One of the Magnum sims isn't showing offline, but isn't showing online either.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Land/What-is-going-on-with-Benjaminz-Has-been-almost-9-hours-and/qaq-p/1201213/comment-id/4222

So what I'm asking is, is Benjaminz sim one of the Magnum ones suffering problems of the week's deploy, or is it gone altogether? (I don't want to be giving wrong advice out on the forums is why I ask - sim is coincidentally Magnum).



[Oskar Linden]

Marigold the problems this morning are related to main channel regions only. If Benjaminz has a problem they should contact support, but support is a bit overloaded right now.

__Oskar

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Marigold Devin wrote:

I am a little confused, wonder if you could clarify. One of the Magnum sims isn't showing offline, but isn't showing online either.

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Land/What-is-going-on-with-Benjaminz-Has-been-almost-9-hours-and/qaq-p/1201213/comment-id/4222

So what I'm asking is, is Benjaminz sim one of the Magnum ones suffering problems of the week's deploy, or is it gone altogether? (I don't want to be giving wrong advice out on the forums is why I ask - sim is coincidentally Magnum).

[Marigold Devin]

Thanks Oskar. Shouldna bugged ya about this. Think I gave the correct advice to her anyways. In first instance she needs to contact her landlord/landlady.

 :matte-motes-grin:



[JoyofRLC Acker]

Ok a silly question ....  is this the first general restarts since the OS upgrade?   (I ask cos of the comment about servers not shutting propoerly, to this non tech person sounds like that could be OS related).

[Oskar Linden]

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JoyofRLC Acker wrote:

Ok a silly question ....  is this the first general restarts since the OS upgrade?   (I ask cos of the comment about servers not shutting propoerly, to this non tech person sounds like that could be OS related).

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Nope. We've had a few restarts since the os upgrades. This was unrelated.

__Oskar

[Alexi Raynier]

This problem does appear to have grown out of some of the server restarts, but the good news is it now appears to be fixed and things are running smoothly again.  For that we owe somebody a huge vote of thanks, and will owe them still more if the trend continues tomorrow and we do not get a repeat of this problem or worse yet a fresh problem to bedevil us. What we need now is stability so things can return to normal and not a headlong rush to more needless and untested additions, but that may be asking a bit much I fear.

[Raul Ariel]

ok i dont usually write here. but just wanted to congratulate you since whatever your rolled out this last day or so on the main server has fixed last weeks dire sim performance for me. i was getting stats all over the place even with very few people about now after the roll out its all back to a nice flat line of 45 fps and dilation 1.0 yaaa. i can work again. ty very much.

[WolfBaginski Bearsfoot]

There's a strategy for certain sorts of highly-automated weapon where the system keeps pausing to look. Bang-bang-look

I sometimes think we have too much bang, and not enough look. 

[Ayesha Askham]

@Wolf

That, Wolf, is sufficiently enigmatic to be downright Gnomish!

I think we owe Oskar and his team a vote of thanks, as was said above, for the hard work put in to get the recalcitrant sims back up (ours was one).

If (and it is a BIG IF) the dying sim issue is quashed, we will be immensely grateful.

You are right of course, Wolf.  More testing should be done and longer periods between leaps in features should occur, but the Lab's staffing and policies being what they are, it won't happen.  We both know that!:matte-motes-wink:

[JoyofRLC Acker]

Lets keep our fingers crossed.

My perception was last week things were great afer the roll-out (ie on Tuesday afternoon) and then went down hill over the next day or 3.

[Oskar Linden]

There were a lot of good fixes in that maint-server release. It's possible the issues you were experiencing were fixed in this release. 

 

As for the issue at hand today with regions not wanting to shut down, we are needing to modify this weeks schedule. Release worked hard today to get the finicky regions back online. We were unable to finish todays roll because of that. Tomorrow morning at 0600 PT we are rolling the remaining 1000 simhosts that we have left. If all goes well we will roll the RC channels on Thursday. If we change that plan I will keep you updated.

__Oskar

[Bridgetta Smythe]

Thank you Thank you Thank you Oskar and all the team for all your good work - my estate is running like a dream again!  Phew!

[JoyofRLC Acker]

Oskar - thanks for the heads up.  Should that be posted on the Grid status?  I suspect a lot pf ppl think its the normal wednesday restarts going on right now?

[Oskar Linden]

I just updated the first post with the LeTigre and Magnum changes that are coming in tomorrow morning.

__Oskar

[MB Robonaught]

Boy Oskar with all these improvements I'll soon be  out of a job as a professional bug hunter lol j/k Thanks to you and all the team for working so hard the last few months to make SL come alive